There is an advantage to throwing out the bad identifiers, It allows the user interface to be made a lot simpler as anything not an email address is wrong.<br><br><div>No URLs, no XRIs. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>As for what to do if the email provider does not provide BrowserID, I don't think it is a problem, I would probably separate the accounts in any case. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Allen Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allentomdude@gmail.com">allentomdude@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Using the email address as the first class identifier is a good idea, so +10000 for using email address as the one true identifier. I also like how they have an interim solution for users whose email provider doesn't support BrowserID.<div>
<br></div><div> An "EmailID" proposal might be viable, but I think BrowserID has some major issues:<div><br></div><div>1) Doesn't work with rich client apps (desktop, mobile, tablet) when there's no browser. </div>
<div><br><div>2) No mechanism to enable RPs to call APIs on behalf of the authenticated user. Almost all RPs will want more than just the user's email address - they'll want rich profile data, the ability to write to activity streams, sharing APIs, location data, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't see how BrowserID provides any advantages over something like OpenID Connect where Email Address is the identifier. </div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Allen</div></font><div><div>
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Dick Hardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yes.<br>
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<a href="http://dickhardt.org/2011/07/browserid/" target="_blank">http://dickhardt.org/2011/07/browserid/</a><br>
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On 2011-07-16, at 8:25 AM, David Recordon wrote:<br>
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